Article
Evaluating the ecological hypothesis: Early life salivary microbiome assembly predicts dental caries in a longitudinal case-control study
2022-05-10
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<title>Abstract</title> <p> Background Early childhood caries (ECC) – dental caries (cavities) occurring in primary teeth up to age 6-years - is a prevalent childhood oral disease with a microbial etiology. <italic>Streptococcus mutans</italic> was previously considered a primary cause, but recent research promotes the ecologic hypothesis, in which a dysbiosis in the oral microbial community leads to caries....
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- Literature Corpus work
- 326313a4-9607-53e7-8e0f-2ff5cea4c94d
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-848589/v2
